diff --git a/lib/fetcher.js b/lib/fetcher.js
index cc2c2db7..f2ac9761 100644
--- a/lib/fetcher.js
+++ b/lib/fetcher.js
@@ -188,7 +188,15 @@ class FetcherBase {
   // private
   // Note: cacache will raise a EINTEGRITY error if the integrity doesn't match
   #tarballFromCache () {
-    return cacache.get.stream.byDigest(this.cache, this.integrity, this.opts)
+    const startTime = Date.now()
+    const stream = cacache.get.stream.byDigest(this.cache, this.integrity, this.opts)
+    const elapsedTime = Date.now() - startTime
+    // cache is good, so log it as a hit in particular since there was no fetch logged
+    log.http(
+      'cache',
+      `${this.spec} ${elapsedTime}ms (cache hit)`
+    )
+    return stream
   }
 
   get [_.cacheFetches] () {
diff --git a/test/fetcher.js b/test/fetcher.js
index 8b2adb36..6f857b35 100644
--- a/test/fetcher.js
+++ b/test/fetcher.js
@@ -207,6 +207,10 @@ t.test('extract', t => {
       }).extract(target + '/badcache')
         .then(({ resolved, integrity }) => {
           t.match(logs, [
+            ['http',
+              'cache',
+              /file:test\/fixtures\/abbrev-1.1.1.tgz.*(cache hit)/,
+            ],
             ['warn', 'tar', 'zlib: incorrect header check'],
             [
               'silly',
@@ -298,7 +302,11 @@ t.test('extract', t => {
             algorithm: 'sha512',
             sri: Object,
           }, 'got expected error')
-          t.same(logs, [
+          t.match(logs, [
+            ['http',
+              'cache',
+              /file:test\/fixtures\/abbrev-1.1.1.tgz.*(cache hit)/,
+            ],
             [
               'silly',
               'tarball',